red kite ya bas!

Very wet and horrible again today, but when the rain stopped early afternoon, I was surprised to see a large raptor up getting mobbed by crows. When I got bins on it, I was even more surprised to see it was a red kite  - untagged too, as far as I could see - no sign of any tags thru the scope either. Result (136) - and an Irish tick too! It drifted slowly north, and went down over the area of felled trees, towards Owenahincha. Otherwise, still 1 female scaup and 1 female tufted duck on the lake today - too baltic to venture far from the house though!